libsyn stats 1.6 state of the union

Libsyn stats v.1.6 has been out for about a month now. The feedback we have gotten so far has been very positive and many suggestions we received are either in the works or planned for the near future. If you haven't already, please feel free to jump into the discussion on the forums. We are continuing to improve and make fixes to the current system, and will roll out a new release over the weekend.

The development of our next generation stats system has been very exciting. We really can't wait to show off everything stats 2.0 will do! While we progress to that stage, there are some more measures we need to take to improve performance and stability. The first is to purge some old XML and Apache logs. If you are currently using the apache or xml logging feature, any log file older then January 2008 will be purged from the system on 4/18/2008. Following that date, the first of the month will mark the rollover period whereby only the oldest month will be purged. (eg. on 5/1/2008, February logs will be removed,etc, etc..). The download links for the logs will be moved to the 1.6 stats interface and the 1.5.x interface will be officially phased out. The access to historical data back to September 2006 will still be available through the stats interface- nothing is being removed from there. The vast majority of libsyn users will not be affected by this data retention policy.

Finally, while we are repairing the issues being reported of recent episodes not being picked up, the stats display may appear to be a bit erratic. We are restoring to a backup from earlier in the week and then reprocessing the weeks worth of data. We anticipate everything to be back to normal late this evening into the early morning hours.

Thanks to everyone for their feedback and suggestions in helping us build a better stats experience for all users.

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update 4/11 12:30pm

The prep work for the brief rollback we were planning for early this morning took longer than expected.  We will be performing the rollback this afternoon and will post back here when it is complete.

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update 4/11 6:20pm

The rollback is complete.  Stats should be current and up to date.  We've recovered the missing data from over the last few days (thought there may be slight amounts of irrecoverable data from last weekend).  Stay tuned also for some requested features we'll be pushing out in short order.